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Guest post by Lucianne Tonti It was 26 years ago that Corinne Day put Kate Moss on the cover of Face magazine – bright eyed and elf-like, the shoot would launch Moss’s career and set up the grunge movement that defined the ‘90s. It was a time synonymous with bare skin and bold silhouettes, clean […]

Guest post by LCF student Alice Davidson The more I learn about the industry, the more I consider and question the ethics of the consumption and manufacture of fast fashion. Subcontracting has enabled companies to evade responsibility for the people who make clothes for them, and accountability of any environmental as a result of production […]

Guest post by Rochelle Motha Rochelle Motha is a freelance artist and graphics designer. She worked as an art director in Sri Lanka and a magazine designer in London, after graduating from Fashion (Dip) Colombo Sri Lanka, Fine Art (BA) from Srishti Bangalore, India. She is currently studying MA Applied Imagination in the Creative Industries at UAL […]

A well-designed product should be linked to the information behind how it was built. Fashion, which creates such beauty or emotional resonance within our personal lives, must mean it is made beautifully as well, no? Yet, fashion is the second biggest polluting industry in the world, and there are large loopholes about its realities. Developed […]

On Sunday 20th March the Centre for Sustainable Fashion entered the 2016 Sport Relief Swimathon to help transform lives in the UK and in some of the world’s poorest communities. Team Grease Lightening, headed by Anna Fitzpatrick (currently on maternity leave), with Renee Cuoco, Nina Stevenson, Dilys Williams, Charlotte Turner, Katelyn Toth-Fejel (along with 23,115 […]

We asked guest speaker Eleanor Snare to reflect after her LCF Manifestos talk… Once you’ve come up with an innovative idea for fashion as sustainability, how do you put it into practice? Talking to fashion consumers about innovative ideas appears simple: fashion is built on renewal and change, so new things are likely to be readily accepted. […]

On Wednesday 10 February 2016 we welcomed Eleanor Snare and Lawrence Alexander to LCF for a talk on Manifestos: Thinking and Making Changes. Lawrence reflects … Is sustainable fashion authentic? No, but that’s okay In Wednesday’s guest lecture I uncovered two key findings about sustainable fashion, authenticity and innovation. Firstly, how the words are related and what […]